The US military has again struck at the Syrian army in Syria. US jets attacked a group of Syrian armored vehicles. By their own claims they destroyed or damaged all of them.

This is the fourth time US forces have attacked Syrian government forces in Syria, the third time since Donald Trump became president, and the second time since the current stand off over US presence in southern Syria at al-Tanf developed.

The US claims the Syrians were within 55 kilometers of the US base at
al-Tanf, Syria which made them a fair target. But the 55 kilometer
exclusion zone is a unilateral American invention. It has no grounding
in law or common sense.

What is worseâas the US air force was bombing the Syrian armyâUS-backed
rebels were bragging about attacking Syrian forces sitting just outside
the 55 kilometer perimeter with their artillery. For some reason the
unilaterally-proclaimed "deconfliction zone" cuts only one way â the
Syrian army may not drive past it, but the CIA-backed rebels may come as
close to the government forces as they please.

Russia warned
the first time the US struck at the Syrians in the al-Tanf region that
such attacks were "absolutely unacceptable". Apparently its warning was
not taken seriously.

Bottom line is that US has de facto now carved out a piece of
Syria as its occupation zone where government forces will be kept from,
but which US-paid "rebels" may use as staging points for attacks against
the army.